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Must be able to work Eastern Standard Time hours.\nAs a Staff Engineer at Bankrate, you sit at the intersection of deep technical expertise and strategic business thinking - the rare engineer who can see both the forest and the trees. You'll architect solutions to complex, cross-team challenges, ensuring every technology decision directly advances Bankrate's goals. That means influencing architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and spotting where emerging technology can unlock growth, efficiency, or a better customer experience - all while keeping systems scalable, secure, and cost-effective. If you're energized by solving hard problems that matter beyond your immediate team, this role is built for you.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nSolve complex, mission-critical problems that require cross-team collaboration and deep technical evaluation.\nAct as a trusted technical consultant and architect for multiple teams within an industry group.\nPartner with product and business stakeholders to align technical direction with measurable outcomes and company goals.\nExplore and evaluate emerging technologies, identifying opportunities to leverage new tools, frameworks, or paradigms that create business value.\nLead technical design, planning, and execution for large-scale initiatives that span multiple systems in their product domains.\nAssess and execute trade-off decisions between performance, scalability, maintainability, and cost.\nDefine and deliver technical stories that improve the integrity, performance, and long-term sustainability of shared systems.\nConduct architectural reviews with the broader Staff group and proactively identify areas for simplification, modernization, and risk reduction.\nMentor and develop engineers through design reviews, pair programming, and technical coaching.\nChampion consistency in design patterns, operational excellence, and engineering best practices across teams.\nContribute to a culture of continuous learning and innovation - modeling curiosity, experimentation, and collaboration.\nWhat We’re Looking For:\nDemonstrated advanced expertise in multiple software engineering disciplines and ability to apply that expertise to solve complex, cross-domain problems.\nProven record of architecting and delivering scalable, resilient systems that align with long-term business and product strategy.\nStrong systems thinking - able to connect architectural decisions to operational, security, and organizational outcomes.\nArchitecting and maintaining full-stack TypeScript systems, leveraging advanced type systems to enforce runtime correctness, schema validation, and end-to-end type safety across API boundaries.\nExceptional communication skills with the ability to simplify complex ideas, influence decisions, and align diverse stakeholders.\nDeep expertise in React and modern web architectures, focused on building scalable design systems, managing complex state across micro-frontends, and optimizing critical rendering paths for high-volume platforms.\nDeep understanding of software architecture principles, modern cloud infrastructure, and secure design practices.\nHolistic ownership of the Node.js/TypeScript ecosystem across server-side and client-side runtimes, establishing shared patterns, tooling defaults, and testing strategies that multiply team-wide productivity.\nDemonstrated curiosity and commitment to continuous learning - proactive exploration of emerging technologies and assessing their business relevance.\nDesigning, versioning, and scaling resilient REST and GraphQL microservices, ensuring loose coupling, backward compatibility, and clean domain boundaries across distributed teams.\nSkilled at mentoring and elevating engineering talent through constructive feedback, design guidance, pair programming, and modeling technical excellence.\nProven track record designing cloud-native solutions on AWS (ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3) using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with an emphasis on system fault tolerance, cost optimization, and automated CI/CD pipelines.\nImplementing enterprise-wide observability, monitoring, and alerting frameworks (e.g., New Relic, CloudWatch) to establish SLOs, shorten incident response times, and guarantee high availability for critical business workflows.\nOperates with autonomy and accountability, influencing technical direction across multiple teams and driving alignment toward shared outcomes.\nCompensation:\nTotal Cash Compensation Range: $130,000 - $210,000 per year\nActual compensation varies based on location, experience, and qualifications.\nAdditionally, the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures, subject to eligibility requirements.\nHealth Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)\nLife Insurance\nShort and Long-Term Disability Insurance\nFlexible Spending Accounts\nHoliday Pay\n401(k) with match\nEmployee Assistance Program\nPaid Parental Bonding Benefit Program\nFlexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential. That’s why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy. Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.\nWho We Are:\nBankrate is where Americans go to get the best price on life's most important financial decisions. By combining proprietary data, advanced technology, and deep market coverage, Bankrate helps consumers compare options and make confident financial choices across mortgages, credit cards, savings, and more. As a rate provider to the Federal Reserve and the benchmark relied upon by major publishers and policymakers nationwide, Bankrate's rate data is the national standard. This commitment to precision is reflected across all its products. In mortgages, proprietary auction technology puts lenders in real-time competition on price alone, consistently delivering rates in the lowest 10% in the country. For deposits, the platform features exclusively top-tier rates in the top 10% nationally, while its credit card coverage encompasses more than 90% of the market by volume. Founded by a journalist, Bankrate remains dedicated to its founding mission of transparency, honest information, and real competition - helping to make the American dream more affordable for everyone.\nRed Ventures is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. Employment at Red Ventures is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. \nWe are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with disabilities. This includes providing reasonable accommodation where appropriate. Should you require a reasonable accommodation to apply or participate in the job application or interview process, please contact . \nIf you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here.\nAt Red Ventures, we believe in real human connection. That’s why we do not hire someone through text, social media, or email only. As part of the hiring process, you should expect live conversations with RV teammates before any offer is made. Also, keep an eye on the sender: we only use official @redventures.com email addresses at the portfolio level or business specific email addresses (e.g., @thepointsguy.com), not ones like “redventurescareer.com.” We will never ask candidates to send money, buy equipment, or share financial account info during your journey with us. 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